EEON is a long-term
research effort involving students and faculty
conducting research on patterns and process in a 1000
acre Puget lowland second-growth rainforest at the
Evergreen State College, WA. Our efforts are centered on 44
intensively-studied long-term monitoring plots where we
are measuring biological diversity, development, carbon
dynamics, avian diversity, trees, snags, sub-canopy
vegetation, and down-woody debris. We use a rotating
subset of 10 plots to conduct detailed measurements of
soil CO2 efflux, root production, spatial
relationships between trees and and soils. These data
allow us to improve understanding of carbon dynamics and
forest structure in a model lowland Puget Sound forest,
as well as develop and ask interesting questions related
to forest structure and diversity. Please
contact us about data sharing and joint projects. We are
managed by the
Evergreen
Field and Ecosystem Ecology lab at the Evergreen
State College.